Day: November 19, 2012
Obama’s Popularity Highest in Three Years
58%
President Obama’s favorable rating, his best in over three years, according to a new Gallup poll. He was more popular after his first election than now, with a 68% favorable rating in November 2008. His all-time high of 78% was measured shortly before his inauguration in January 2009.
Plenty of Blunt Assessments Where This Came From
Some of the groups that would have agreed with us on a lot of issues, they don’t even look at us. We scare them.
— Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), quoted by Politico, offering a blunt assessment of the Republican Party.
Most Independents Elected Since 1942
25
Minor party and independent candidates were elected to state legislatures this month, Ballot Access News reports.”Checking records of past elections reveals that this is the highest such number since 1942, when there were 31 such candidates elected. In 1944, there were 22 such candidates elected, and at no time since 1944 (until 2012) had there been any election with more than 17.”
Like the Rest of Us, Barbara Bush Is Tired of Elections
I’m tired now of the elections. People spoke. Move on, get on with it. I want to do other things and not to be ugly.
— Barbara Bush, quoted by Reuters.
Just a Poor Little Republican Who Has Lost His Way …
Oh shit, I’m in the wrong meeting. Where are the Republicans meeting?
— Rep.-elect Chris Collins (R-NY), quoted by Roll Call, when he found out he was in a House Democratic Caucus meeting.
An Iowan Cuban
The GOP has started the 2016 presidential games
By dispatching Sen. Marco Rubio to Iowa and Ames.
Rubio projects vigor and youth,
But to tell you the truth,
His old, worn-out ideas are exactly the same.
